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Anti Central Powers Propaganda

Music

The Importance of U.S. Propaganda

Destroy This Mad Brute: The gorilla, that symbolizes Germany, destroys the civilization of Europe and is on its way to America as it stands on American soil.

Propaganda: info used to promote a particular political cause or point of view

Help Crush the Menace of the Seas: Unrestricted submarine warfare played an important role in WW1 as it was one of the major reasons why the US entered the war.

Creel

Committee on Public Information

Propaganda by: H.R. Hopps

Propaganda by: Barron Gift Collier

Propaganda by: O'Connor-Fyffe

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  • Music was one of the more popular ways in which people expressed their feelings toward the war; pacifist and propaganda songs could be heard side by side in pre-war America.
  • The combination of Espionage and Sedition Acts as well as American propaganda for the war would flood the US with patriotism.
  • Music was popular in the trenches as well, sometimes to help soldier morale, sometimes to voice their lament.

Propaganda by: Ellsworth Young

BACKGROUND:

  • Wilson created it on April 13, 1917
  • George Creel was appointed as the head
  • The CPI promoted war/gain public support
  • It was ended shortly after the armistice

WHAT IT DID:

  • CPI hired artists and illustrators to create appealing posters
  • Made every American sure of his/her role in The Great War

such propaganda

much support

Über alles (above everything else): These words were a part of a patriotic song that was sung by German soldiers in World War I. The idea of the Germans as figurative devils, responsible for causing the war and for alleged atrocities committed in Belgium and France, played a big role in British, French, and later American propaganda aimed at stirring up popular enthusiasm for the war.

Remember Belgium--Buy bonds--Fourth Liberty Loan: An anti German propaganda poster that warned to remember the "Rape of Belgium" where the Germans invaded Belgium, violated their neutrality, and destroyed the lives of many civilians

Wilson

IMPORTANT: Many Americans retained their pacifist or isolationist ideals and did not support the war effort. Along with this, propaganda provided moral reasons for the soldiers going into war and the Americans supporting it at the home front

Examples of Music

'Over There'

'I Didn't Raise My Boy

to be a Soldier'

by George M Cohan

by Alfred Bryan and Al Piantadosi

Forms/Examples of U.S. Propaganda

  • A US pacifist song from 1915.
  • The song was popular among American women (as suggested by it's title), socialists, isolationists, and immigrants that hailed from countries in the Central Powers.
  • Surprisingly popular among Irish-Americans as well.
  • Despite being popular before 1917, Americans ditched the song to sing tunes for their boys abroad
  • George M. Cohan wrote this patriotic fight song to celebrate America's entry into WWI in 1917.
  • With America's entry into the war, the public chose patriot songs over pacifist; especially to avoid seeming suspicious, considering the newly introduced Espionage and Sedition Act.
  • Was extremely successful in recruiting soldiers
  • The song was so popular in WWI that it was reintroduced in WWII.

Americans all! Victory Liberty Loan: The nation needed funds to support the war effort along with men. Posters like the one below encouraged Americans to purchase Liberty Bonds.

Be Patriotic, Sign Your Country's Pledge to Save the Food: The Committee on Public Information wasn't the only government board to issue propaganda; this is an example of one from the U.S. Food Administration.

Propaganda by: Paul Stahr (1917)

propaganda by: Christy, Howard Chandler

'On Patrol in No-Man's Land'

'What Kind of an American

Are You? '

by James Reese Europe

by Alfred Von Tilzer

James Reese Europe had served as lieutenant and as the director of the 396th Regiment band (a.k.a. the Harlem Hellfighters) . While hospitalized for a gas attack, he wrote this song for the soldiers. He received international fame for his regiment's musical talent and a hero's welcome upon returning to the U.S., but was tragically murdered soon thereafter in 1919.

  • This song was most aggressive patriot song in America during WW, and almost seemingly shamed men into joining the army.
  • It directly attacks the immigrants in the country -- the 'hyphen Americans'-- and demands, "Prove You're American!"
  • Von Tilzer, the composer, had actually earlier opposed the war; his 'flip' in 1917 reflects both the successes of American Propaganda in gaining support for the war.

propaganda by: Ethel Franklin Betts (1918)

propaganda by: Montgomery Flagg (1917)

Lest We Perish Campaign for $30,000,000 American Committee for Relief in the Near East: Many posters focused on the Western front, however there are a few examples of the propaganda for the Ottoman front commissioned by the Committee on Public Information.

Wake Up, America: This is a recruiting poster. Much of the U.S Propaganda dealt with the topic of recruitment, since many Americans were still pacifists, even in 1917.

More Examples of Propaganda

Works Cited:

The Significance of Patriotism

Propaganda played an important role in American patriotism starting with the Committee of Public Information. This was a body that was set up to create and disseminate propaganda. this information (whether completely accurate or not) encouraged people to identify themselves as Americans and to feel that their country was in the right. As a result, many Americans supported the war

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https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0703.html

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